I spent a most interesting & tiring week helping at Steven Davey's annual summer fencing camp. This year we had forty students, split half & half between foil & epee and aged between 12 to 21. There were five hours training & instruction per day, followed by two hours free fencing in the evening. Our lead coaches were Bela Patocs & Ian Briggs for epee, and Steven Davey & Robert Kiss for foil, and along with everyone else I learnt lots from these experienced coaches. However the real icing on the cake came when Robert Kiss (Hungarian Olympic Foil Team: 1992 - 4th place & 1996 – 5th place) fenced two demonstration bouts with the winner of the students foil competition, Toby Lee. True to form he produced a real class performance that was enjoyed by everyone.

For those of you wanting to make real progress in fencing such camps are the way forward.